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110.445,11). Patented Jan. 20,1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

BABTIS B. KINN, OF DUNKIRK, NFV YORK.

BEER-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 445,115, dated January 20, 1891.

Application filed March 13, 1890. Serial No. 343,793. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, BABTIS B. KINN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dunkirk, in the county of Chautauqua and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in BeerCoolers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said invention, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to improvements in refrigerators and beer-coolers, and more particnlarlyto that portion containing the ice.

The object of my invention is to provide a beer cooler or refrigerator with an ice-supporting platform beneath the storage-com partaient adapted to keep the icc, however small in quantity or as it decreases in bulk, up against the beer at the point where it is drafted, and also to provide means whereby the refrigerator can be used during cold weather indoors without the use of ice, thereby producing a beer cooler or refrigerator particularly adapted for use in saloons and restaurants.

My invention consists in mounting within the ice-chest of the cooler, which is located in the bottom of said cooler, aplatform, which will hold the ice always against the shelf supporting the beer and other articles, imparting to the lower portion of the beer in the kegs the greatest cooling, the beer being drawn off always at this point. To attain this object I also can substitute instead of the springs ropes connected with the platform and running over pulleys, the ends of the ropes being secured to a weight.

My invention further consists in providing the supporting-floor with a coil of pipe, with one end of the pipe communicatingr with the air out of doors, in order that the refrigerator may be kept in a warm room in winter without t-he use of ice.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction and arrangement of parts, all as hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a sectional View of the refrigerator in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the platform operated by weights and pulleys and the coil of pipe for use in cold weather.

A indicates the main compartment of the beer cooler oi" refrigerator, which is for the reception of the beer, while directly below is the ice-chest B, the supporting-Hoor of the compartment A being made in strips, so as to form open spaces between the same for the admission of the cold air to said compartment.

The ice-chest B is provided with the platform C, ou which the ice rests, having se cured to its under side the spiral springs a, which fit in suitable sockets attached by screws to the bottom of the iceehestor to the Hoor of the refrigerator.

Then the ice is put in on the platform C, the said platform is forced down and held so until filled wit-h the ice, and if the ice be insufficient to till the chest the springs a will act upon the plat-form and hold the ice up against the supporting-shelf above.

Both platforms C and the ioor of the icechest are provided with tubes b and b', respectively, the tube b running through the platform, on which the ice rests to conduct the water as the ice melts from the platform to the floor of the ice-chest, and from thence it runs through the funnel-shaped tube b', which has a pipe connecting therewith, either into some receptacle placed under the refrigerator for its reception or down through onto the ground, as may be desired.

In Fig. 2 I have shown the equivalent of my device for keeping the ice against the floor of the compartment A by the substitution of the weight E, attached to the ropes F, which ropes work on the pulleys G, and I have also shown a coil of pipe H on the floor above the ice-chest with both ends ofthe pipe communicating with the outer air, or another pipe I may be used in addition to bring cold air within the cooler in cold weather when ice is not used.

Having now described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isf 1. In a beer-cooler, the ice-chest located below the storage-compartment, the ,said ice- IOO chesthavingmounted thereiuaplatform aeu- [outer air, substantially as and for the pur- Io ated by L series of springe, whereby Ishe iee pose seb forth. f

is forced upf-against the kegs and that por- Iu testimony whereof Iafx mysignature in tion of the beer' which is drawn off at thi's the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

5 kept at a very 10W temperature, as set BABTIS B KINN 2. A beer cooler 01` refrigerator having the l \Vitnesses:

supportingshelves provided with coils of J. C. BREOHT, pipe the ends of which communicate with the V. E. CANDEE. 

